Nov 25, 2018

Daily brief for 2018-11-24

ASIA

  1. North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks

WORLD

  1. Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
  2. Adobe Patched A Critical Flash Player Vulnerability Disclosed Publicly
  3. News of the Week: November 24, 2018
  4. North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks
  5. 42-year-old man Arrested For Hacking More than 2,000 Computers From 50 countries With DarkComet RAT
  6. New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses

ATTACKS

  1. This week's #RiskAndRepeatPodcast digs into the debate over #WeakPasswords and password reuse, and asks: how much are users responsible for

THREATS

  1. Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
  2. Adobe Patched A Critical Flash Player Vulnerability Disclosed Publicly
  3. MacOS Penetration Test Reveals Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
  4. Powerful Mobile Malware Rotexy Launched over 70,000 Attacks with Banking Trojan & Ransomware Modules
  5. .@TalosSecurity recently created a #decryptor that helps files affected by the #ransomware #Thanatos -- typically known to not decrypt files
  6. TA505 Cybercrime Group Experimenting with a New RAT In The Wild
  7. Researchers at @okta found a bypass that allows #ThreatActors to pose files as legitimate @Apple files despite being #malware and
  8. 42-year-old man Arrested For Hacking More than 2,000 Computers From 50 countries With DarkComet RAT
  9. SMBs suffered the brunt of ransomware attacks in 2018
  10. CVE-2018-19406, CVE-2018-19407: Two DoS vulnerabilities on Linux Kernel
  11. New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses
  12. How has the @DLink #router vulnerability affected your enterprise?
  13. The Week in Ransomware - November 23rd 2018 - STOP, Dharma, and More

CRIME

  1. TA505 Cybercrime Group Experimenting with a New RAT In The Wild
  2. New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses

POLITICS

  1. Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
  2. North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks